Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-02-04
STATE HEws CONDENSED.

Niles claims the largest walnut board il
the state, it being "a feet longand 3
? inches wide.
The Hon. Sumner Howard, formerly o
Flint has been elected mayor Of Prescott
Arizona.
John Rasleigh was killed the other day
by falling rock in the shaft of the Huron
mine Lake Superior.
Suits 10 recover for timber cut from
government lands have been begun in the
United States court for the western dis
trict' against T. y. Sailing for l,ls9.45. J.
C. Pomeroy sl,59749, and the Stronach
lumber company $1,000, all OF Manistee
the Two Rivers manufacturing company.
Two Rivers, Wis, s., l64; Joseph f. Lay
cock Menominee, sl,176; John Leathern
and /. Smith, Menominee, 81, SOY; Spalding
lumber company Of Chicago, $1,000; Aug
ust Spies $1,000; Spies d Martin, $1,000,
both Of Menominee.
DR.. T. M. Armstrong, a well known and
successful practitioner at Grand Ledge
has been sent to the asylum at Kalamazoo
having become insane through the effects
of morphine and cocaine Miss Nina b.
Norton OF the same village has also been
adIudged insane and will be taken to the
asylum
Chairman Graves of the southeastern G.
A X. Association has received informa-
ton that Generals Sheridan and sherman
VIII oe present at the annual encampment
to be belt at Adrian next August.
j. H. Brown has been sentenced 20 five
years in the Jackson prison for passing a
number OF forged checks at East Saginaw
in December last.
Another great sensation has been caused
In Brighton by the arrest Of Dr. W W
Waite, prominent dentist. charged with
being instrumental in procuring the death
OF Ida Lee His bonds were fixed at S. coo
which were promptly furnished He stout
~ declares his innocence His examina-
tion is set down for Feb l. Dr. Waite is
a married man and has one child.
Peter Hearsh, Sr an old time resident
Of Flint, died suddenly the other morning
just after breakfast.
Dr. f. 4. Lodge, the oldest practcing
homeopathic physician in Detroit, died in
that city Jan. 26.
The Hon. Godfrey Knight OF School
craft, aged l02 years, is i'll with pneu.
monia.
DR.. Baldwin and wife Of Whitehall. |
while driving from Elbridge TO whitehall !
during the last blizzard became stuck in |
a snow DRIFT in an out Of the way place |
and were forced to remain in the cutter
ali night. They nearly persisted
Charles A. Crockett Of Wakefield and |
Patrick O'Neil and Peter Anderson OF
lronwood in the Gogobic Iron region were
for keeping houses of i'll fame.
but got off with So fine each and costs
amounting to some $50 more.
The bill providing for the appointment
of a mine inspector meets with approval
in the upper peninsula.
Officers from Newcastle. Pa. recently
arrested Bill Sharp a noted desperate. in
Almada township Van Buren, county. He
is wanted for burglarizing the home Of an
aged couple near Newcastle last August
and robbing them OF nearly s, CO.,
An expert has been looking over the oil
prospects in Clifford, and claims that a
paying oil vein extends from that place to
Saginaw.
January %, closed the first 80 years OF
Michigan's statehood.
A farmers institute will be held at Han.
over Feb. and ;. President Willis. Prof.
McLouth and Prof Bailey, OF the Agricul-
tural college, will be present
Minnie and Ellie Reeves OF Milan while
through the garrett one day
asst week came upon a pair OF trousers
which had done service for their grand
'ather, Gabriel Reeves, and they went
through the pockets. The girls found 500
IN gold and a letter written by the grand
father just before his death, in which he
willed the money 70 them.
Daniel Nettleton, an old pioneer OF Tus-
,ola county, is dead.
Geo Nelson, aged about Q years, while
sliding down a banister In the East Union
school in Jackson, fell to the basement
breaking his neck, death resulting instan-
Ex-Ald. Fred T. Clark of Adrian. died
the other morning, after a few
Illness probably from heart
disease. He has been keeping hotel at
irand Island, Nebraska. for two or three
Tears past and was in Adrian on a visit.
Miss +. Mabley Of Jackson, died the 9TH
n morning after brief ilnsss OF periton-
IS. Two days before her death she had a
painful operation performed by dentist,
70 which her death is partially attributed.